Research to identify and qualify professional practice in foundation skills : final report.

The National Foundation Skills Strategy for Adults provides a blueprint for action to develop the foundation skills of the Australian adult population. To raise the foundation skills of the Australian adult population, the Strategy identifies four priority areas for action. One of these is: Building the capacity of the education and training workforces to deliver foundation skills. This involves building the skills of specialist language, literacy and numeracy practitioners, developing the workforce to enable the effective teaching of employability skills and supporting vocational trainers to better integrate foundation skills with vocational training. This report describes the research undertaken to identify and qualify professional practice in the teaching of foundation skills. [Background, ed]